How much do you spend

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A week on food, clothes and petrol?

Pretty much bang on for portion sizes going off that

I do think a fair few people have lost track of how big their meals should be. I look at some of the dinners people post online and think that one plate full would suit 2 adults and one child, but one adult is eating it.

I have no idea about clothes - as and when. Probably £500-£1000 a year for 2 adults and 2 dc.

Petrol - about £75 a week (over 2cars)

Food - about £75 a week for 2 adults, 2dcs and 2 cats. But that's only really 5 'proper' cooked meals a week. The dc eat at the cm's 2 nights a week and on those nights dh and I usually cba to cook so will have a takeaway egg on toast/toasted Sarnies or something.

I fill my car up once a month, which costs £95 to fill.

Gasp - I hope you're getting a lot of miles out of that. I'm in the US and filled my (big) car up yesterday and it cost £28.

A chicken does one meal for us.

Dh will have a leg, the wings and a bit of breast. Ds1 will have a leg and a bit of white meat too. Ds2 and I eat the breast meat and the skin. There's never really any left over.

At Xmas we had a turkey that fed'16 people'. It did the 4 of us (2 of which are dc) for 3 meals (and the 3rd was a bit stingy).

We tend to eat a lot of meat/protein and veg...less carbs. I often see people with a plate along the lines of one chicken drumstick, a spoonful of peas and masses of rice/mash/pasta. It seems all off to me. My 6 year old eats 3 drumsticks on his own!

I base portion sizes on not being left hungry.

Food: around £90 weekly
Petrol: no car, we walk everywhere
Clothes: only buy as and when we need (not bought anything in the last 18 months except maternity wear)

Wobbly - how much a litre is it over there ATM? (Nosy)

I'm not surprised if a chicken only lasts for one meal if your DH is heating just under half of it, OriginalGreenGiant

Food - £200/230 a week. All into our meat, chicken lasts one meal and maybe a sandwich for dp the next day. I would eat one breast, the dcs a drumstick/thigh each and some of the other breast, dp would eat whatever was left. That includes alcohol, at maybe £30 a week (though it's dry January in our house so it's more like £200 a week).
Petrol - £45 a week for my car, am a SAHM but do a few big journeys in the week. Dp - £120 for his van, £110 for his car though the car gets driven only at weekends really so only needs filling every 3/4 weeks.
Clothes - hard to say as don't buy them every week, just when we need something or see something we like.

Gasp - I hope you're getting a lot of miles out of that. I'm in the US and filled my (big) car up yesterday and it cost £28

That's because you're in the US. Petrol prices in the UK are way more expensive than over there. My tank is about 75 litres, so it's a biggish car (S Max). I'm not sure how many miles I get out of it but it's not excessively thirsty. It's around 38-40 mpg if I recall.

About £100 on the actual food shop - shameful amounts of intermittent top ups from £5 to £30, though.

Hardly anything on diesel, as rarely drive to work - probably £20 every 2/3 weeks.

Weeks can go by without spending on clothes, if no time or no need - entirely depends if I have chance at the weekend, or dc need/really want anything. But then could be a lot in a short space of time. So don't know, really.

I base portion sizes on not being left hungry

Me too and I find that I feel fuller (rather than just bloated) for longer if we eat more protein and less carbs. We eat lots of vegetables as well to bulk out meals but if we didn't eat a reasonable amount of protein we would be hungry within a few hours (especially the teenager who seems to be a bottomless pit who eats all the time but still remains slim and healthy). I have thought about replacing chicken and meat with lentils a couple of times a week but I really can't stand lentils.

Wobbly - how much a litre is it over there ATM? (Nosy)

It's about $2 a US gallon here so about 35p a litre.

I knew petrol cost more in the UK but I assumed it would have dropped somewhat. But maybe not. Prices are currently about 2/3 what they were this time last year.

Our electricity rates are also falling as a direct result of oil prices falling, and my heating costs similarly are about 2/3 what they were last year as I use propane/LPG.

That's because you're in the US. Petrol prices in the UK are way more expensive than over there. My tank is about 75 litres, so it's a biggish car (S Max). I'm not sure how many miles I get out of it but it's not excessively thirsty. It's around 38-40 mpg if I recall

I know prices are different but that's a huge difference... My tank is exactly the same size as yours and I get 35mpg.

35p a LITRE
Fuck me.

wobbly round here petrol is currently around £1.20 a litre and diesel about £1.27 a litre. It has been £1.39-£1.49 recently.

35p. Fucking hell.

It's because of the extra taxes and duties the UK put on fuel.

I can't believe it's so cheap here in the US either, didn't realise the electric and gas bills will go down as the dirty energy companies in the UK just take it as extra profit generally. Yeeeha

This is a great site.

fuel duty

UK govt getting about 80p of each litre of fuel.

35p ?!?!!

I filled up in Asda yesterday and got excited that the petrol was £1.03, much lower thank it has been. But that pales into insignificance compared to 35p !

Food: £50pw mainly from Aldi
Petrol: £20 per week for me and Dh has a company car with a fuel card so £0 for him.
Clothes: no idea but they are heavily subsidised by vouchers from dh's work.

That's for a family of 2 adults and 1 child.

OMG Chickengate !

Im basing my amounts on a 1.7-1.9kg ( this weeks for the price of £9.20)
It is a really well developed bird - not your average supermarket chicken.
I had a look at Sainsburys and the average Chook is about 1.3 kg.
Compare this to a Free range chicken that has roamed about and developed meat and flavour .
You wont want to waste a scrap.
My lot have never complained about portion sizes - we tend to do meat and carbs the same and then double the veg.
The 3rd meal is from the boiled carcass- it adds flavour not bulk .

Alpaca - where do you buy your chickens?

Pmed you Exit

One free range chicken lasts the two of us one meal and maybe sandwiches for a lunch. We could eke it out to last longer but never feel like we've eaten too much. Neither of us are over weight or have huge portions. Maybe we buy particularly small chickens or something.